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Fedora X11Libre change proposal withdrawn after 'overwhelmingly negative feedback' (lists.fedoraproject.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Considering the overwhelmingly negative feedback, I am hereby withdrawing this Change proposal.

The reasoning is twofold:

I have always argued that Changes that are overwhelmingly rejected by the community should not be approved by FESCo. So it would be very hypocritical if I attempted to push this through over the almost entirely negative feedback. I stand by my positions and also apply them to myself.

At this point, I believe that this has no chance of being approved by FESCo for Fedora 43, so I do not want to waste everyone's time by continuing this discussion that is not leading anywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do not want to waste everyone’s time by continuing this discussion that is not leading anywhere.

Not leading anywhere? That's a strange perspective to have given the "overwhelmingly negative feedback." I think it led to a fairly concrete conclusion.

I think what he meant to say was "I don't like that my arguments did not sway your opinion."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If it's just an unchanging "no" and strongly in favor of not having the status quo go anywhere, I would indeed say that is "not leading anywhere". Not changing what people think and how things were before is "not leading anywhere".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

There's just no reason to do this work. Even if you ignore the fork's controversial maintainer, and just favor the fact that it's maintained at all (which is what the proposal's author is suggesting) just... Why?

X11 is basically over at this point, why throw a last minute wrench into the existing, working Xorg infrastructure?

When we dropped XFree86 back in the day there were license issues, packaging issues and a real alternative didn't exist - all justifying the effort to switch. None of these are a problem today.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point, I believe that this has no chance of being approved by FESCo for Fedora 43, so I do not want to waste everyone's time by continuing this discussion that is not leading anywhere.

soooo they won't try it again with Fedora 44, right?

Damn thats very overwhelming :D